Re: [stable] [PATCH 2.6.27-stable] Fix misreporting of #cores as #hyperthreads for Q9550

From: Joe Korty
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 10:16:37 EST


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:32:33PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 01:27:44PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> > Fix misreporting of #cores for the Intel Quad Core Q9550.
> >
> > [ for 2.6.27-stable ]
> >
> > For the Q9550, in x86_64 mode, /proc/cpuinfo mistakenly
> > reports the #cores present as the #hyperthreads present.
> > i386 mode was not examined but is assumed to have the
> > same problem.
> >
> > A backport of the following three 2.6.29-rc1 patches
> > fixes the problem:
> >
> > [PATCH] x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs
> > [PATCH] x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs, fix
> > [PATCH] x86: add MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits to <asm/msr-index.h>
>
> Can you provide the git commit ids for these patches?


066941bd4eeb159307a5d7d795100d0887c00442 [PATCH] x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs
99fb4d349db7e7dacb2099c5cc320a9e2d31c1ef [PATCH] x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs, fix
bdf21a49bab28f0d9613e8d8724ef9c9168b61b9 [PATCH] x86: add MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits to <asm/msr-index.h>
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